Welcome ...

I'm Bob and this website is a collection of my photographs and artwork. I work in three areas of imaging, Photography, Astrophotography, and Painting ...

I hope you enjoy exploring the images and the information that I have to share ...

03-03-2010

I have added an image of M1 the Crab Nebula to the astrophotos page. It was taken with the 12.5" f/4.8 and the QHY8 camera in Corvallis Oregon. This image was processed with PixInsight after conversion and stacking with Images Plus. I am finally beginning to understand some of the features of PixInsight. This is a powerful program. Take a look in the Astrophotograpy Page.

06-06-2009

I have added my first-light image with a QHY8 chilled CCD camera to the astrophotos page. It looks like this camera is going to take the astrophotos to a new level. Take a look in the Astrophotograpy Page.

03-07-2009

I have added a first installment of images from Paris captured in October of 2006. Paris is a beautiful city to vist. I highly recommend it to any who love art. It was tough to decide which images to post out of the 900 photos that I captured. I have added 83 images to this collection. I hope you enjoy them ...

02-19-2009

Here is my first implementation of Frames throughout the website. Please let me know if you find any problems ... Thanks.

02-17-2009

There are two new images taken with the 40D in the Astrophotography section, NGC 7008 and M42, the Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula image was taken when the moon was nearly full and the color that was captured was quite a surprise.

11-08-2008

I am learning how to use Frames in my webite. I will be making changes throughout the site to make things a little better suited to the environment. I also have a couple of new astrophotos posted, a small planetary nebula NGC 7008, and M16 the "Eagle Nebula"... I can't quite seem to settle on the processing for M16 but I decided to upload it as-is for now. These were both taken with the Canon 40D

06-28-2008

I have uploaded a new image of the Trifid Nebula taken with the 12.5" f/4.8 scope and the Canon 40D ...
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06-17-2008

I have now finished updating my old 12.5" telescope adding a quality f/4.8 primary mirror from John Lightholder of Lightholder Optics. From the brief amount of observing I have done with it I think this scope is going to work out well. It's 60" focal length will be very nice for wider field imaging. I can't wait to get it out into darker skies. There are a couple of new images with this scope taken at first light ...

In addition, I have just purchase a Canon EOS 40D to take my photography to the next level. The first thing I noticed about this camera is that it responds very quickly. There is no lag in processing images in the camera. The 40D also has great low light performance. In my opinion ISO 1600 is quite usable. And a very significant upgrade is that the Live View works very well for live focusing on the telescopes. This promises to be be a very nice upgrade from the 10D ...

08-06-2007

I have added a tribute to James Enemark and his watercolors. Jim was a very special person in my life. He was my art teacher, a good friend, and an inspiration to me for many years. He passed away May 19, 2006 ...